The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-02-26


little doubt but what it was the unfortun-
ate artist. But there was very little |
doubt in the Ihinds of several people who
knew him, and detectives were put on his
track. When he left he was owing every
body, and his last attempt OH getting out
was to swindle livery stalle keeper out of
eighty dollars. The young wife went into
weeds, but the creditors kept up the hunt,
and this week the gentleman was hunted
down in Newark, n. j., where he had been
living in clover up to his ears under an as
sumed name, but in way which no re-
spectacle married man ought TO live. The
proofs of his moral delinquency were so
fragrant that the Judge granted the wife a
divorce at once, and she now returns to
her fathers home in Buffalo to assume her
maiden name, wiser, if not a happier wo-
man than when she left that city four years
ago to become the wife of this artistic
scapegrace.
In the matter of wills there are few cases
more romantic than the case of Patrick
Cauldwell of Brooklyn. Patrick was mar
ried three times. by his first wife he had
two children, a sen and a daughter. By
the second he had six, evenly divided as to
sex. BY the third wife Ire had none; but
dying two years ago lie left by his will all
his property to his third wife, who straight
way offered his will for probate. This was
no sooner done than the children of the Sc
cond wife appeared with a will made two
years after the third wifes, which left all of
hisproperty to be divided among The children
of the second wife. Then wife No. pro-
duced proofs that when Cauldwell married
the widow Ryan, wife No. 2, that Michael
Ryan, her husband, was living; conse-
queptly she was not the lawful wife of
Patrick Cauldwell Then the second wife's
children produced proofs that when Michaal
Ryan married their mother he had another
wife living, consequently she was not the
wife of Ryan,and the marriage with Cauld-
well was valid. Just as they were about TO
enter into possession the son of the first
wife appeared on the ground with an abso-
lutte deed for all the real estate given to
him and sister by his father many years be-
fore, doubtless to keep it out of the hands
of his creditors, and which had long been
forgotten. The claim was acknowledged,
and the son was about to take possession
when new claimant appeared, in the per-
son of poor hod-carrier, who had married
the sister, and who died giving birth to her
first child-the child being supposed to be
"a I -.
mother. AS the sister died without leaving
issue-the property all went to the brother,
but some old crones who were present on
the occasion, remembered that the baby
breathed for half hour before it died, and
oil this very slight contingency hung fifty
thousand dollars; for if the baby was alive
when born-the mother having died, he
would be the heir to the property, and if
he died, his property would go to his faith
er, and so it was. That little half hours
life was worth $4,000 to Barney Flynn,
who will carry the hod no more.
The backbone, ribs and skull of the strike
is broken, and Assembly 40, which has
been engineering this affair, hauled down
its flag on Saturday after desperate effort
to induce all the engineers in the city to
strike so as to paralyze all the industries,
throw thousands out of employment and
Jury the city in darkness. They called out
all the brewers, but thank fortune they
were dealing with different class of men
from the 'longshoremcn, freight handlers
and coalheavers. The brewers are mostly
Germans, and the engineers largely Ameri-
cans, and they did not propose to lend
themselves to Master Workman Quinn's
desperate tactics-and they refused, Next
day the strike collapsed, and now the poor
.lupes who gave up good situations, where
they had fair wages and regular employ
ment, are left destitute in winter
stepped in debt, no work, nor prospects of
r work, fol- the steamship companies will not
take them back, nor any of the places
which they so recklessly and foolishly left,
The poor of New York have suffered by
this strike, and they are the only ones that
, have suffered. If these men ever get back
to work again, he will be a smart walking
delegate who ever gets them to give up
good situation to go on a strike. They
thought the Knights of Labor would make
, their employers take them all back when
they got ready to 90; but the employers re-
fused to do it, and the final result is that
, the great body of strikers are ruined.
, Another Alderman in Sing Sing! This Is
: pleasant reading. Fol- years this gang of
= itrpnrant fTbnoe ha1 ne hNyf . la
, nearly strangled the life out of this great
city with all of its vast revenues. To have
Gagged three of our city fathers, with a very
, fair prospect of getting four more at least,
7 is something Then We have the two big
boodlers in sight the men who provided
! the millions to buy our municipal rascals.
If we can put them safely under matches,
we can then sing, "The day of jubilee has
, come"
? Sam Jones at the Young Mems Christian
Association, and seats to hear him one dol
J lar head. What was it crowded this very
) respectable and orthodox hall almost to
? sui1ocation? 1t was not to hear a logical
, and grammatical analysis of the Bible, for
Mr.. Jones does not believe that either
, grammar or logic has anything to'do with
the gospel. Some of his biblical tropes and
figures sent cold chills down the backs Of
half the audience, and to many it looked
! and sounded like good old-fashioned pro-
family. do not profess to be over ortho-
- 'loN or inordinately pious-lt may be old
fashioned prejudice that ought TO have
rot over long ago -but n does seem tn ma
as il a man speaking of Deity and Heaven
/ should treat the subject a little more reyer-
, rntallv than as if he was addressing a man